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Thank you all for the many comments, questions and suggestions. Particular thanks go to user x.15a2 for constantly monitoring, replying and helping so many users here. To continue these discussions, please head over to the DuckDuckGo subreddit.

Man, there has got to be a way to do this. I would would pay DuckDuckGo $30.00 a year, for a traceless, NSA-less email service.

DuckDuckGo has Exploded among search users. I think it safe to say that anybody who uses this search engine, (and the complete platform as I do), would have No Problem in paying you for a secure email service. I'd even be willing to bet that Hush Mail would be open to such an idea of a partnership with you.

The main thing is , is to be able to keep it light weight, leaving hardly any footprints.

I do hope you will reconsider. Net neutrality is of the utmost importance. If it is destroyed or modified to cater to the big dogs, then where will that leave you?
Take the plunge Man, don't get shuffled back to the short bus and the slow bandwidth train.
Keep hold of your impressive ethics, but turn this into a Big Dog,
or (Big Duck), whichever suits you better.
Please do not get left in slow bandwidth limbo when the Gooberment finally shuts down Net Neutrallity, as we all do know it is only a matter of time before they cave in to the whore Google's money.
(sorry for the bad word), it is the best description though.
$30.00 a year is not much to pay for your brilliance.

While Dmail might not be top of DDG's agenda DDG did (through the 2014 Open-Source Donations) donate cash to Mailpile (https://www.mailpile.is/) which is still in alpha testing at present but worth keeping an eye on.

Mailpile is an email client used for encrypting/decrypting emails and not an email service. Mailpile does currently not issue its own email accounts/addresses. You can use your existing email address on top of Mailpile. If your existing email service stores your emails on their servers, then they will not be able to read the encrypted emails. The Mailpile client is used for sending/receiving, managing, organizing and storing emails on your computer/USB/cloud. [\quote]

When DuckDuckGo will start its e-mail service, it won't better (more private) than Google. The key of keeping privacy is (partial) decentralization - using multiple providers: DuckDuckGo for searching, Youtube for videos, some another provider (openmailbox.org) for e-mails, etc. You can even use Gmail if you don't use any other Google services and encrypt all your e-mails using PGP. Just don't keep all your internet activity in one place.